Should we continue the Presidential Innovation Fellows Program?
Bill Summary
To codify the Presidential Innovation Fellows Program, this bill establishes a program to encourage successful entrepreneurs, executives, and innovators to join the Government and work in close cooperation with Government leaders, to create meaningful solutions that can help save lives and taxpayer money, fuel job creation, and significantly improve how the Government serves the American people.
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Kevin [R-CA-23]
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Opponents say
• Money spent on the Presidential Innovation Fellows program can be spent elsewhere.
• Questions whether the program has produced tangible benefits for the public.
• Questions whether the program has produced tangible benefits for the public.
Proponents say
According to the bill:
• It is in the national interest for the Government to attract the brightest minds skilled in technology or innovative practices to serve in the Government to work on some of the Nation’s biggest and most pressing challenges.
• No additional funds are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this Act or the amendments made by this Act. This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall be carried out using amounts otherwise authorized.
• It is in the national interest for the Government to attract the brightest minds skilled in technology or innovative practices to serve in the Government to work on some of the Nation’s biggest and most pressing challenges.
• No additional funds are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this Act or the amendments made by this Act. This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall be carried out using amounts otherwise authorized.
